The Apache HTTP Server Project is an effort to develop and maintain an
open-source HTTP server for modern operating systems including UNIX and
Windows. The goal of this project is to provide a secure, efficient and
extensible server that provides HTTP services in sync with the current HTTP
standards.

The Apache HTTP Server ("httpd") was launched in 1995 and it has been the most popular web server on the Internet since
April 1996. It has celebrated its 20th birthday as a project in February 2015.

As previously announced, the Apache HTTP Server Project has discontinued
all development and patch review of the 2.2.x series of releases.

The Apache HTTP Server Project had long committed to provide maintenance
releases of the 2.2.x flavor through June of 2017, and to continue to
publish some security source code patches until December of 2017. The
final release 2.2.34 was published in July 2017, and no further evaluation
of security risks will be published for 2.2.x releases.